Flows for APEX 25.1 release announcement

We are excited today to fully release Flows for APEX v25.1, packed with exciting new features for both the Community Edition and Enterprise Edition.
Both editions are now fully available, and existing users are now able to migrate their systems from 24.1 to 25.1.

Key Features in 25.1

1. AI Service Task

Add AI-powered decisioning and generative tasks into business processes with simple, configurable service tasks.

• Drive process. Routing with AI-based decision support outputs
• Generate summers, reports, personalized communications automatically
• Evolve your business processes to add GenAI steps within the framework of your existing processes
• Low code design of APEX makes AI use simple and repeatable.

2. Process Suspend, Resume, and Rewind*

Gain precise control over long-running workflows by suspending, resuming, or rewinding processes at any step without losing state or context.

• Suspend process instances safely for investigation or waiting events.
• Resume execution exactly where the process previously stopped.
• Rewind selected steps for correction or re-execution when required.
• Improve resilience and reliability of complex, long-lived workflows.

Available in the Enterprise Edition.

3. Enhanced APEX Human Task Integration

Enhanced integration with APEX Human Tasks (Approval and Action Tasks)

• Support task owner and administrator assignment from the controlling workflow.
• New plugin for declarative return of task state and outcome.
• Better removal and cleanup of cancelled or expired tasks.
• Integration of task definition and state into the Flows for APEX monitor.

4. Message Queueing for Process Isolation*

Inter process communication using BPMN Message Flow in the Enterprise Edition now uses Oracle Advanced Queueing to decouple sending and receiving processes, increasing reliability when a process is suspended or a participant is offline.

5. Enhancements to Event Logging

Gain clearer visibility into workflow execution with flexible, fine-grained event logging, improving both audit readiness and developer debugging capabilities:

• Now captures fine-grained step-level processing events.
• Flexible logging levels at system, diagram, or process instance.
• Highlight instances and steps executed with admin intervention.
• Improved control of log archiving and purging automations.
• Flexible logging meets monitoring, forensic audit, and debugging needs.

6. Other Developer Features

New developer-focused enhancements streamline modeling, improve error handling, and provide clearer visual cues for easier design and maintenance:

• Script Task Error Boundary Events let PL/SQL throw BPMN errors.
• Model-defined process naming simplifies deployment and version management.
• Diagram badges highlight metadata directly within process diagrams.
• Updated Flow Viewer plugin built on web component architecture.
• Bundling plugins delivered as APEX Component Groups.

Editions

The Flows for APEX Community Edition remains 100% open source under the MIT license, with community support via GitHub. The Flows for APEX Enterprise Edition includes product support and can be licensed from Flowquest.

Explore the full details of version 25.1 and start transforming your workflows today!

Some features marked with an asterisk (*) are exclusive to the Enterprise Edition.

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